1957
When this edition is published, we will be well into the holiday season. Diane and I wish to extend to you and yours the season's greetings and all best wishes for a very happy, healthy and productive New Year. We are sure that all of you join us in expressing hope that in the new year a peace on earth can be achieved and that good will towards all men can be more lasting.
Reunion: The Executive and Reunion committees are formulating great plans for the June affair. This, is a must reunion no matter where you live. Start making those plans now —. According to Tom Schwarz and the committees, the plan in general calls for the most fun for the most people at the lowest cost for everyone. I'll be reporting in greater detail as the plans get more specific. Start' talking to others in your various regions about transportation, etc. I can guarantee that the West Coast contingent will be in Hanover in June at top strength.
On the academic front, Russ Brignano has been appointed assistant professor of English at Carnegie Institute of Technology. Prior to this, Russ received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
Bob Googins recently joined the Kingswood School faculty in West Hartford, Conn. In addition to teaching English and Government, Bob is the varsity soccer coach. Before associating with the Kingswood School, Bob taught at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C.
Last summer John Farley was awarded a Fulbright travel grant in connection with a nine-month visiting appointment to teach marketing for the Handelshogskolan in Goteborg, Sweden. The teaching appointment runs from last September to June 1967. In addition to classroom duties and research John will tutor Swedish students and assist them in research projects. His permanent academic position is at Carnegie Tech where he is an assistant professor of industrial administration. John received his Ph.D. in 1963 from the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago with specialties in marketing statistics and economics.
In October, Sam Bartlett was promoted to Class 6 in the U.S. Foreign Service. Sam's present assignment with the Service is at the American Embassy in Paris. The Bartletts have three children: Thomas, age 6; Margaret, age 4; and Mary, 2.
Received a letter which brought me upto-date on the Don Swift family. For the last three years Don has been studying the bottom sediments of the Bay of Fundy and teaching marine geology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Presently Don is associated with the Puerto Rico Nuclear Center which is operated by the University of Puerto Rico for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. From Nova Scotia to Puerto Rico - what a climate change! Don and his spouse have two daughters...Etien, age 3 and Cecilia, age 2.
From the grapevine comes news that J.C. Parkes is now a lieutenant commander in the Navy Medical Corps and is in charge of a 130-bed orthopedic unit at the U.S. Naval Hospital, St. Albans, Long Island. Prior to the Naval duty which lasts until June 1968, Jim served a residency in orthopedic surgery at the New York Orthopedic Hospital which is part of the Columbia Presbyterian Center. Before this three-year stint, Jim spent two years at Roosevelt Hospital one as a resident in general surgery and the other as an intern. He received his M.D. at Harvard Medical School, graduating Cum Laude in 1961. Jim met his wife Margaret at Roosevelt Hospital and was married in 1963. They now have two daughters, Susan and Jacquelyn.
WEDDING BELLS: Two more members of the bachelor contingent have departed the ranks. Constantin Boden married Katherine Colt of Providence, R.I., on Thanks-giving Day. Katherine is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College. Also received notice that Pete Buswell had become engaged to Diane Sweeney of New York City last October. A graduate of Bennett College and Columbia University, Diane also attended the Sorbonne and the University of Madrid. Businesswise, Pete is associated with American Home Products, where he is assistant to the president of Whitehall Laboratories.
TODDLER: How about some birth notices all you '57 wives? I'm confident that our class is having greater effect on the population explosion than the number of birth announcements I receive would indicate. Anyway, congratulations this month go to Randy Aires. Keirn William Aires joined the rest of the Aires family last June. Randy and spouse are proud parents of two other offspring - John, 6 and Juliet, 4. Randy has been practicing law with Robert Montgomery '56 in Denver for the last two years. He is now a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve.
BREVITS: Speaking of the Navy, JimVohr is a lieutenant commander on active duty. His home is in Virginia Beach, Va. Dr. Barry Tischler is a captain with the Army and is stationed at Darnall Army Hospital, Fort Hood, Texas. Bill Myers functions as a management consultant and resides in sunny Newport Beach, Calif. Apparently Bill had a hand in the formation of a new feeder-commuter airline in California called Air California.
Jim Lawrence is manager of the Data Processing Division of Dupont de Nemours in Germany. Gordon Bjork is associated with Columbia University as an assistant professor. Dr. Wayne Andrus is on the Middlesex Memorial Hospital Staff in Middlesex, Conn. Another Connecticut resident, Dick Welsh is on the management consulting staff of Arthur Andersen & Co. Dr.Dick Longabaugh is a staff member of the Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital where he functions as an associate social psychologist. John Cusick is a sales manager with "Ma Bell," American Telephone. John lives in Westfield, N.J. Mid-westerner Phil Byers is the administrative assistant to the vice president of Apache Corporation, Minneapolis. Phil lives in the Minneapolis suburb, Edina. And another item from the grapevine ... Frank Bruni received a promotion at Haskins & Sells.
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